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Show THE THREE-RING CIRCUS 197 with care and thought. It attracted the immediate attention of the press, and stories appeared about the country which were not complimentary to either the Reclamation Bureau or Arizona. May 31, 1949 California was permitted at last to resume its pre- sentation. Engineer Dowd returned to tell the committee: 270 "Arizona charges that Imperial Irrigation District is attempting to take water away from Arizona. Such a statement is ridiculous. "It is Arizona which seeks, in effect, to confiscate Imperial's established water rights. It is generally agreed, and this Arizona does not deny, that the existing projects in the Lower Basin will require all the water available, under the Colorado River Compact, for use in that basin. "In view of this situation, if Arizona is to secure a water supply for the Central Arizona Project and if the Compact is not to be violated, such water supply can be made available only by taking water away from one or more of the existing projects in the Lower Basin. It is for this reason that Arizona would now stop all de- velopment in Imperial Valley and by this means en- deavor to show that there will be a water supply for its fantastic Central Arizona aqueduct." June 1, 1949 Dowd told the committee how the Reclamation Bureau had failed to live up to its All American Canal contract with the Imperial Irrigation District. For several years the district had sought to construct a power plant at Pilot Knob on the canal. Its right to develop |